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A file of printed items and typescripts relating to the North Wales Hydro Electricity Power Bill, including several petitions against the Bill.

The file consists of leaflet material and circulars, 1913-1917, issued by the Labour Party and the Labour movement in north Wales. The file includes election flyers issued in support of R. T. Jones.

Miscellanea, 1793-1862, comprising a plan, June 1793, of the slate quarry of the Rt Hon. Lord Penrhyn in the parish of Llandegai, county of Caernarfon, prepared by W. Jones of Bangor; a copy of a booklet entitled Crown Lands in North Wales, undated, containing a leading article published in The Times, 10 August 1849, related letters published in the paper during August and September 1949, and a Report by the deputy ranger of the Forest of Snowdon on the Management and Appropriation of Crown Property in North Wales; and a lease, 1862, from the Honourable Edward Gordon Douglas Pennant of land in the parish of Llandegai, co. Caerns.

Notes and correspondence relating to a survey on land reclamation in North Wales, [1913x1916], to which J. Lloyd Williams contributed. Notes specifically relating to Caernarfonshire and Anglesey and North Wales grasses are also included.

A draft copy, 1799, of Walter Davies : General view of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of North Wales ... (London, 1810).

A scrap album containing holograph letters from E. O. Davies, Bangor, 1930, and J. Glyn Davies, Llandudno, 1930, and a circular letter from Nichol Grieve, secretary, Liverpool Free Church Centre, 1932; notes of an address on congregational singing; a 'final copy' of a resolution by the Liverpool Welsh Presbytery, [1932], and draft resolutions of condolence passed by the [North Wales C.M.] Association, [1937]; a typescript summary of sermons delivered at [Calvinistic Methodist] preaching services ('Cymanfa') at Chester, 1852; press cuttings of Liverpool interest; printed matter; etc.

A chronologically-arranged date index to tombstones and monuments, memorial tablets and brasses, stone-work, wood-work, glass, bells, communion plate, alms dishes, etc. in churches and to some non-ecclesiastical domestic buildings, etc., mainly in North Wales.

A North Wales jobbing printer's account book, 1832.

Two accounts of the Fifteen Tribes of North Wales; the arms and pedigrees of Welsh families; and a letter, 1819, from Richard Llwyd (Bard of Snowdon) to Paul Panton the Younger (p. 49a).

Lists of grants, leases, etc., passed from the crown, of the revenues of North Wales, 1631-1702.

Seventy holograph letters, 1844 and undated, largely relating to geological studies in Wales and elsewhere, written to A. C. Ramsay by Sir H[enry] Thomas] de la Beche from London, Aberystwyth, Tregaron, etc., W. Talbot Aveline, Ludlow, H. W. B[ristow], Presteigne, etc., Edward Forbes, Geol[ogical] Society], J. P. Nichol [from Dowanhill Observatory], John Phillips, T[rinity] C[ollege], Dublin, etc., Lyon Playfair, from Manchester, etc., Warington W. Smyth, Bedford, Chelsea, Llandegley, Manchester, etc. (ref. to sulphurous waters at Llandegley), Trenham Reeks, Museum [of Economic Geology], James Sharpe and John Sharpe, Glasgow, etc., W. R. Steuart Williams, Llandovery, etc., and John Wilson, Haddington and Aberystwyth; together with thirteen holograph letters, 1844, and undated, largely of a personal nature, written to A. C. Ramsay by William H. Baily from [London], John H. Barry, Liverpool, his cousin John Crombie, Edinburgh, his cousin J. Crombie, from [Glasgow], T. Evans, Eleanor Howden , [Edinburgh] and Bangor (an account of a tour of North Wales), G. McGlure, Helensburgh, Thomas Nimmo, Berbice [British Guiana], T. Todrick, Haddington, and W. Walton, Bath, a copy of a letter, 1844, from George Jones of the British and Foreign Institute to 'Mr. Punch', and a letter, 1839, from And[rew] C. Ramsay, Glasgow, to 'Robin' [Howie] (personal) ( found in the portable desk of Dr. Howie and re-addressed to the writer from Glasgow, 1844). Some of the letters are addressed to the Geological Museum, Charing Cross, London, and to the Ordnance Geological Survey at Dolau Cothi, Builth, and Rheadir Gwy.

The file comprises letters from Communist Party members in Deeside, Abergele, and Aberystwyth, and from officials of the North Wales Area Communist Party.

The file consists of a notebook containing a personal account of a journey through North Wales undertaken in September 1963, beginning at Llyn Mair and Rhyd, and ending with Coed y Rhygen, describing scenery, geology, botanical habitats, birds, plants, natural and man-made features of the landscape, and suggestions for photographs, and a few, unrelated notes on Llangrannog and Cwmtudu. The material served as the basis for his The Snowdonia National Park published in 1966.

The first of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.

The second of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.

A volume containing an account of a tour in North Wales in the form of transcripts, [18 cent., last ¼], of four letters, dated 20-28 September 1776, sent from Caernarfon (pp. 1-25), Tan-y-Bwlch, Merioneth (pp. 27-49), Denbigh (pp. 50-74) and 'Rhyd Dyn' [Rhyddyn], Flintshire (pp. 75-95), commenting mainly on Welsh history and castles.
The transcripts have been heavily corrected and emended in a different hand. The author, who appears to have resided at Rhyddyn, is not named but may be the Rev. William Warrington. His correspondents are identified as a Mr Eyton (p. 1) and a Dr Jeffries (p. 49). Also included are a preface (ff. v-vii) and several versions of a passage, in the same hand as the emendations, relating an encounter with some Irishmen (f. i verso).

A statistical summary, [1907], of church work and finance in the Diocese of Bangor during the year 1906-1907.
The volume presents total figures relating to work, income and contributions in the Archdeaconries of Bangor and Merioneth (ff. 1-4), followed by detailed statistics for individual parishes, arranged by Archdeaconry and Rural Deanery (ff. 5-36).

A volume compiled, 1798-[1808], by Henry J. Hughes, Llanbeblig, containing precedents of declarations, pleas, and other legal documents, together with cases and opinions and notes on replevin.
The precedents relate mainly to cases in Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, [18 cent., second ¼]-[late 18 cent.]. The contents are listed on pp. iv-ix. An agreement to build a drain, 1829, is loose at the end of the volume (pp. 323-324).